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CHAPTER III
SOCIAL LIFE AND ECONOMIC
CONDITIONS
The peoples and kings dealt with in the preceding chapter-dich notmannstitute the whole of the populace of Jambubahia From the point of view of social grades, who were Khattiyas princes, warriors or nobles, who acquired tho right to rule the country by the strength of their arms. The Indo-Aryan society was composed of three other social grades, namely, those represented by the Brāhmaṇas, Vessas and Suddas. Those who accepted this social system based upon the four theoretical divisions of people, were broadly distinguished as Aryans from tho rest of the populace looked down upon as Milakkhas or Mılakkhus (= Mlecchas). In the outer fringes of the Indo-Aryan society, thus conceived and con'stituted, lived the Milakkhas among whom, again, some sections of people camo completely under the sway of members of the Indo-Aryan society, and some maintained their political
1 Jacobi, ZDMG., 48, 417--the Khattaya formula of the Buddhists a B. C. Law, Concepts of Buddhasm, Ch. II (Jäti or caste).
& Digha, ú, p. 284; Samyutta, v, p. 466; Jataka, vi, p. 207 Sumangalavilasini, 1, p. 176; Paramatthaiotika. I. p. 236.
